William Monk 02 - A Dangerous Mourning

women, to lords and ladies. How did you develop this ear?
    AP: I don’t think it’s very good, actually! You have to be very good to get it right. Otherwise, you need just enough to suggest it is different speech, but not too much to confuse what is being said. It’s a judgment call, how much you can put in, what dialect words to use. Iactually like using expressions best. Like, “a face like a burst boot.” Can you imagine what that looks like? Pretty grim! Or, “Silly little article, haven’t got the wits you were born with.”
    M: That’s funny!
    AP: Good. It’s meant to be.

 

    A NNE P ERRY is the bestselling author of two acclaimed series set in Victorian England: the William Monk novels, including
Dark Assassin
and
The Shifting Tide
, and the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novels, including
Buckingham Palace Gardens
and
Long Spoon Lane
. She is also the author of the World War I novels
No Graves As Yet, Shoulder the Sky, Angels in the Gloom, At Some Disputed Barricade
, and
We Shall Not Sleep
, as well as six holiday novels, most recently
A Christmas Grace
. Anne Perry lives in Scotland. Visit her website at www.anneperry.net .